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Screening on Saturday 10th April 2021

As we enter April, we convene another exciting JAFWA screening night, with its usual program of anime goodness.
Just a reminder to come early, as the COVID countermeasures limit the number of people we can admit.

This week, we have a preview episode that has some applicability to people who attend conventions. This night we will have a double episode of “Vinland Saga”, to end the series (well first Season anyway). Here is hoping they animate further chapters of the manga of this fictionalised account of an Icelandic Saga.

Jaku-chara Tomozaki-kun Vinland Saga

A query:- Do we have enough interest to try doing an auction during the marathon screening of April 24?

We continue taking precautions to limit the possible second wave of CoVid-19, and we ask that you co-operate and even help where possible with our efforts to keep you safe – some social distancing, extra cleaning with antiseptic, library under limited access, etc. Also, we must ask that anyone unfortunate enough to be infected to not attend JAFWA until they are contagion free.
Help would be welcome during set-up and pack-up due to the extra duties imposed by COVID-19. Please arrive early to confirm personal details due to COVID 19 regulations. There will be Contract Tracing, either by the SafeWA app on your keitai (mobile phones), or by signing in at the contact tracing sheet at the front desk. And we need to wipe the chairs down with disinfectant before they are stacked away.

Below is the tentative program for the evening of Saturday April 10th, 2021.

All items in the original Japanese language with English subtitles. With assistance from a grant from and

5:15pm Arte Ep 10/12
5:40pm Appare Ranman! Ep 11/13
6:05pm Jaku-chara Tomozaki-kun Ep 1 (preview)
6:30pm dinner break
7:15pm door prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pm Dr Stone: Stone Wars Ep 9/?
7:55pm Ascendance of a Bookworm Ep 11/26
8:20pm Revolutionary Girl Utena Ep 12/39 (retro)
8:45pm Promised Neverland Season 2 Ep 8/? (v)
9:10pm Late Break
9:20pm In/Spectre Ep 11/12 (v)
9:45pm Vinland Saga Ep 23/24 (v)
10:10pm Vinland Saga Ep 24/24 (final)

Doors Open before Screening:~5:00 PM

Program Finishes:~10:45 PM

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Dates of Interest

Barring a resurgence of COVID-19 pestilence, these events are scheduled to happen:

  • Saturday April 17th 2021, 9AM-12PM — Nexus Toy Fair Victoria Park Leisure Centres – Aqualife and Leisurelife.
  • Saturday April 24th 2021, from 1:30PM — JAFWA’s next marathon length screening. Suggestions as to what we should screen will be welcome, as there is still room to make last minute adjustments.
  • Saturday May 22nd 2021, 8AM-4PM (before JAFWA) — Tokyo Alley 9 – Travel South Terrace & Sandgate Street, South Terrace, South Perth WA 6151. (couple of bloacks away from JAFWA)
  • Saturday June 5th 2021 — JAFWA’s next Bunning’s Sausage Sizzle, down at Cannington.

Synopsis

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Arte

16th century Firenze, Italy. The birthplace of the Renaissance Era, where art is thriving. In one small corner of this vast city, one sheltered girl’s journey begins. Arte dreams of becoming an artist, an impossible career for a girl born into a noble family. In those days, art was an exclusively male profession, with women facing strong discrimination. In spite of these challenges, Arte perseveres with hard work and a positive attitude.

This evening’s Episode:Katarina’s Dinner

At her uncle Yuri’s home, Katarina happily cooks a large meal. Arte asks about Katarina’s childhood, and learns of the joys and regrets. Later, Arte overhears Malta tell Sofia that he will send Katarina to a convent to become a nun if things do not change.

Appare Ranman! (aka “Appare in Full Bloom!”)

After a certain mishap, the brilliant but socially inept engineer Appare Sorano and the shrewd but cowardly samurai Kosame Isshiki find themselves drifting on a boat from Japan to America. Broke, the two decide to compete in the Trans-America Wild Race to win the prize and return to Japan. The two battle crazy rivals, outlaws, and the great outdoors itself as they race through the wild West from the starting line in Los Angeles to the finish line in New York — in the steam-powered car they built.

This evening’s Episode:Rain in the Dark Night

Tristan and Chase arrive late at the scene in their beaten up the vehicle to find Kosame shot by Gil the Butcher. They take Kosame to the hospital while the damaged cars are towed back into town. Kosume’s bullet is removed, but he remains unconscious in a hospital in a critical condition. Appare becomes despondent and refuses to continue the race.

preview item – Jaku-chara Tomozaki-kun (Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki-kun)

Tomozaki is one of the best gamers in Japan, and in his opinion, the game of real life is one of the worst. No clear-cut rules for success, horribly balanced, and nothing makes sense. But then he meets a gamer who’s just as good as him, and she offers to teach him a few exploits.

Tonight’s Episode:Say what you want; famous games are usually fun

Fumiya Tomozaki, a self-proclaimed bottom-tier character who views the real world as a trash game and spends most of his time playing video games, has a match in the Yontendo Smotch game Attack Families against second-ranked player called NO NAME and wins. After the match, NO NAME asks Tomozaki to meet up. To his surprise, NO NAME turns out to be his classmate and model student Aoi Hinami. Who is very disappointed.

Dr Stone season 2 “Stone Wars”

Modern society is lost when a mysterious light leaves everyone petrified in stone. Thousands of years in the future, super genius Senku awakens and begins restoring civilization with his Kingdom of Science. Now as he sets down blueprints for a smartphone in the stone world, Tsukasa and his Empire of Might prepare for the upcoming war.

This evening’s Episode:To Destroy and to Save

As Kohaku’s team fight Tsukasa and Hyoga, in the Miracle Cave Senku, Gen, and Chrome try to find some science way to stop the Kingdom of Might. Their solution will need to be dynamite to save the Kingdom of Science. Perhaps solving Tsukasa’s original grievance might help.

Ascendance of a Bookworm (Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame niwa Shudan o Erandeiraremasen)

The story follows Motosu Urano, a book-loving post-secondary student and soon-to-be librarian who ends up crushed to death beneath a pile of books during an earthquake. With her dying breath, she wishes to be reincarnated in a world where she can read books forever. Urano awakens in the body of a weak, five-year-old girl named Myne in a world where books are scarce and only available to elites. Myne, retaining her memories from her previous life, decides to create and print her own books so that she can read again.

Tonight’s Episode:Life-or-Death Choices and Family Meetings

Myne awakens in Freida’s bed and notices a shattered bracelet on her wrist. Freida walks in and tells her how the bracelet was a magical item that absorbs the Devouring fever, but that her illness will soon return within a year. Myne spends the rest of the day cooking sweets and playing with Freida before leaving with her family the following morning, who believe Myne is completely cured. Myne will have to tell the truth sometime.

retro – Shoujo Kakumei Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Utena Tenjou, a teenage girl who expresses her desire to be a prince through her strong-willed personality and tomboyish manner of dress. She finds herself drawn into a series of sword duels at Ohtori Academy, to win the hand of Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious girl known as the “Rose Bride” who possesses the “power to revolutionize the world”.

Tonight’s Episode:For Friendship, Perhaps

Shattered over the loss of the duel and Anthy, Utena goes to school dressed like a girl and falls into deep depression. When Wakaba persuades Utena to get back on her feet, she challenges Touga to a rematch, and an unexpected reaction from Anthy changes the outcome of the duel.

Yakusoku no Neverland (The Promised Neverland) season 2

Emma is an 11-year-old orphan living in Grace Field House, a small orphanage housing her and her 37 siblings. Life had never been better; with food that tasted gourmet, plush beds, snow-white uniforms, and the love of their “Mother” (the caretaker) Isabella, as well the litany of daily exams that Emma always aced with her two best friends Ray and Norman. The orphans are basically allowed to do whatever they want, except to venture out of the compounds or the gate that connects the house to the outside world. Then she finds out the truth. Determined to break out of Grace Field House, Norman and Emma partner up with Ray to peel away at the façade of the farm and find a way to escape with all their other siblings. But escape and freedom has its own dangers.

Tonight’s Episode:Episode 8

A flashback to the day of Norman’s departure from Grace Field House shows him being handed over to Peter Ratri who oversaw experiments on humans at Lambda 7214. After Norman scored highly in all his cognitive tests, Ratri saw in him an opportunity to control the children of the Farms. Realizing his lifespan was limited, Norman devised a way to contact other inmates. In the now, Norman awaits to release the demon degenerating drug.

In/Spectre

When she was still just a girl, Kotoko was kidnapped by yokai. These spirits made her into a powerful intermediary between the spirit and human worlds, but this power came at a price: an eye and a leg. Now, years later, she watches out for dangerous yokai while developing feelings for a young man named Kuro, who is also special: an incident with a yokai has given him healing powers. He’s surprised when Kotoko asks him to team up to handle renegade yokai, preserving the thin line between reality and the supernatural.

Tonight’s Episode:The Ultimate Fiction

With the third rumour disproved Rikka moves on to other futures, so Kotoko springs her trap and returns to the idea Nanase’s sister leaked the rumour Nanase killed their father. Saki realises Kotoko had expertly manipulated Rikka into selecting futures she wanted, and a future Kuro thought had disappeared suddenly becomes available again.

Vinland Saga

set in Dane-controlled England at the start of the 11th century, and features the Danish invaders of England commonly known as Vikings. The story combines a dramatisation of King Cnut the Great’s historical rise to power with a revenge plot centered on the historical explorer Thorfinn, the son of a murdered ex-warrior.

Tonight’s Episodes:Miscalculation” and “End of the Prologue” Finale

While in York, King Sweyn convenes the Imperial Council, but the situation is tense among the Danish leaders following the assassination attempt on Canute. Sweyn addresses the elders of Denmark, and after announcing the successful Viking conquest of England, he openly praises Canute and Thorkell. He hands control of Mercia, the most prosperous part of England, to Canute. Askeladd believes his strategies for Canute’s ascendancy have worked, however he is horrified when Sweyn also announces his intention to subdue Wales in the coming spring because he believes they are sowing the seeds of rebellion. Meanwhile, the badly beaten Thorfin is thrown in jail after creating a disturbance in the street. Leif Erikson visits Thorfinn in jail, and promises to return him to Iceland and then onto the warm and fertile Vinland.

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